Friday, December 26, 2008

TENORI-ON: an Electronic Musical Instrument

TENORI-ON is an electronic musical instrument that consists of 16 by 16 LED switches. It was first showed off at SIGGRAPH 2005 held in Los Angeles. For me, an interesting point is that the LED switches seem to sense human touch.

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